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The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) and MOAH:CEDAR are thrilled to announce the 38th Annual All-Media Juried Art Exhibition. Artists of all ages and experience levels from around the Antelope Valley and the 5th Supervisorial District of Los Angeles County have participated in the exhibition, submitting pieces of various art mediums. On Saturday, May 27 artists were honored during the award ceremony were over $1,000 were granted by the Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation and various small businesses, community organizations, public officials, and other sponsors. The exhibition will run from Saturday, May 27 to Sunday, July 9, 2023

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May 22 - June 27, 2021 Video Submissions Maggie, SanFilippo A Painterly Flow, 2020 Watercolor, Digital Acuarela, Digital JS2021.132 TJ, Tario Intermezzo, 2020 Film Película JS2021.9

MOAH:CEDAR's Generous Sponsors & Cultural Partners Hernando & Fran Marroquin Mark & Hilarie Moore Family Trust

March 27 - May 2, 2021 Watch The Special Reception The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) and MOAH:CEDAR are excited to announce the Museum’s 36th Annual High School Student Art Exhibition! Hosted virtually by MOAH:CEDAR, an institution that has a long standing history of being recognized as the community hub of art and culture. This highly anticipated event promises an unforgettable opportunity for students and community members alike. Media categories featured in the exhibition include: painting, drawing, ceramics, digital and film photography, 2D and 3D and mixed media.

Days of Punk Michael Grecco February 4 - March 19, 2023 Back to All Exhibitions In the cultural crucible of the late 1970s, punk rock music expanded and morphed into the Post-Punk and New Wave movements – and their many offshoots – that prevailed until the early 1990s. During this time, photographer, photojournalist, and filmmaker, Michael Grecco, was down and dirty in the thick of it, chronicling the clubs in Boston and New York. His was a unique opportunity to be embedded in this revolutionary scene from the very beginning. Presented for the first time, selections from this body of work – all previously unseen – capture a landmark era in popular culture. Punk, Post-Punk, New Wave, onstage, and backstage, Days of Punk is a punk rock exhibition that gets you unprecedented access to the inner circle of the punk rock scene. From the back rooms of venues to the spotlights onstage, Grecco recorded in-your-face images of seminal punk artists including The Cramps, Dead Kennedys, Talking Heads, Human Sexual Response, Adam Ant, Elvis Costello, Joan Jett, the Ramones, and many more.

“In one room will be all classic works up till Mannerism. All works will represent religion, mythology, and the Creation. In the other room of MOAH’s Cedar location there will be works from Modernism up to a work of Edward Hopper. In this room I will talk about the present through some works which really talk to us about the pandemic situation, poetically.” - Julio Anaya Cabanding The relentless passage of time, its impact, and the constant change have been explained by classical philosophy through the concepts of the "past", the "present", and the "future". It is their linear interchange that generates the unstoppable stream we all experience as life, an ongoing process which we had a chance to reexamine to great extent in the past year and a half of the global pandemic. Such historically unequaled premise prompted Julio Anaya Cabanding (1987), to conceptualize a showcase that will talk about human life history through the exploration of the history of painting, with an accent on the most recent period of lockdowns, quarantines, and social distancing. Channeling his personal concerns and experiences through his vast knowledge and love for the medium of painting, and materializing it through an impeccable conceptual and technical ability, Malaga-born artist is introducing his poetic vision of the Past and Present. Going to his studio during the months of strict lockdowns in Spain, Anaya Cabanding experienced the usually bustling streets of Malaga more desolated and unnerving than he could ever imagine. The lively atmosphere of the coastal Andalucian town was replaced by the uncomfortable emptiness, evoking the ambiance of Giorgio de Chirico's motionless cityscapes basking in the bright daylight of the Mediterranean sun. During the same period, the artist spent long hours, days, weeks, and months, at home with his girlfriend, physically isolated from the rest of the world. Recognizing the atmosphere of the detached subjects in Edward Hopper's work, it was one of his paintings, Room in New York, 1932, that finally moved the artist to envision an exhibition with such percipient concept. Having a chance to create and present an entirely new body of work in an institution such as the Lancaster Museum of Art & History, prompted the artist to reconstruct somewhat of a human life timeline metaphorically narrated through the history of painting. Using his signature trompe l'oeil pictorial interventions on found cardboard, Anaya Cabanding attentively appointed an extensive selection of renowned masterpieces to represent our shared past. Starting from The Origin of the Milky Way by Tintoretto,1575–1580, over Jan van Eyck's portraits of Adam and Eve from the Ghent Altarpiece, 1432, all the way to Rogier van der Weyden's Crucifixión triptych, 1443-1445, the five works in the first, pre-Modernism room reference the creation, mythology, and Christianity. The chronicle continues in the second room where a series of seven landscapes stand for the beauty of untouched nature, which is suddenly interrupted by the presence of what we recognize as a civilized human. Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818, one of the most important works of German Romanticism, here stands as the historic turnaround, a metaphorical portrait of humanity face-off with the unbeatable strength of sublime nature. Such monumental anticlimax is sensibly leading to René Magritte's The Key of the Field, 1936, and Giorgio de Chirico's The Return of the Poet, 1911, two depictions of telling surreal scenes that envisioned our recent reality. Continuing over Pablo Picasso's The Yellow Shirt (Dora Maar), 1939, rendering of a seated woman that is physically falling apart as she's nervously waiting to stand up from the seated position, the exhibition wraps up suspended in the anticipation of the aforementioned Hopper's peeping classic. In an effort to accentuate the illusion of the actual museum display, ‘Past and Present’ marks the first exhibition comprising only works painted to the very edges of the found cardboard. Interested in the confusion that painted images can initiate, especially their relationships with the points of view and/or shadows, the presentation also includes his first works which are stepping off the flatness of the wall and into real space. Just as Anaya Cabanding’s practice of painting priceless masterpieces in abandoned spaces or on found cardboard recontextualizes their prestigious aura, repurposing them into a timeline of human life disputes the centuries of their traditional evaluation, giving them more emotive, existential, human value. Text courtesy of Sasha Bogojev (Juxtapoz contributing writer)

40th Annual High School Student Art Exhibition Antelope Valley Union High School District April 3, 2025 - May 18, 2025 Back to All Exhibitions MOAH:CEDAR and the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) are proud to present the 40th annual Antelope Valley Union High School District (AVUHSD) Student Art Exhibition, taking place from Thursday, April 3, 2025, to Sunday, May 18, 2025. This highly anticipated exhibition provides a unique opportunity for high school students across the Antelope Valley to showcase their artistic talent in a professional gallery setting. The exhibition will officially open with an awards ceremony on Thursday, April 3, 2025, at 6 PM in Cedar Hall. This special event will celebrate the creativity and dedication of young artists, recognizing outstanding works across various artistic disciplines. This year’s exhibition features approximately 180 selected works, including two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and multimedia pieces, chosen by representatives from the museum after reviewing student art portfolios. Participating schools include all eight district high schools within the Antelope Valley Union High School District. MOAH:CEDAR invites the community to visit and support these talented young artists as they take their first steps into the world of professional art. Join us in celebrating their artistic achievements and exploring the creativity of the next generation

May I place you on a brief hold? Lynne McDaniel January 8, 2022 - March 13, 2022 Back to All Exhibitions What’s going on here? Artist Lynne McDaniel explores society’s complicated relationship to nature. For many years her work has been concerned with environmental issues. McDaniel uses the language of the landscape to explore changes created by wars, human intervention, and the passage of time. The scene may be beautiful, but there is always an element of ambiguity. The incursion can be a subtle dash of color, or a more violent stroke or erasure. The destabilization or interruption of what is happening in the paintings reflects her growing uncertainty about what is happening on the larger canvas of the world. Most of McDaniel’s work from the last year or so reflects the contraction of her world to the streets surrounding her home in the foothills of Los Angeles. McDaniel found herself unable to engage with disasters and catastrophes and found herself seeking solace in the landscape of the daily walks she takes around her home and studio. The paintings document her movement through the physical space as well as the subtle changes occurring over time. The resulting work forms a sort of journal of McDaniel’s experience, a recording of daily activities during safer at home orders that gives an accounting of time, and status to small things. McDaniel is still more fascinated by the questions than the answers.

We Are All In This World Together Dean and Laura Larson July 22, 2023 - September 10, 2023 Back to All Exhibitions Artists Dean and Laura Larson collaborate in a cautionary series of stories chronicling the consequences of climate change and extinction told through the lens of the Larson’s hybrid animal-human creatures called The Mourners . Inspired by the 14th and 15th century sorrowful alabaster figures of monks and clerics surrounding the tomb of John the Fearless, the second duke of Burgundy, the Larson’s take these symbols of religious devotion and create their own figures grieving the loss of life on earth. Through Dean’s digitally manipulated photographs and Laura’s anthropomorphic figures, The Mourners traverse different historical periods of time in Europe. Their journey starts from the rudimentary beginning of time to the eventual destruction of Earth to examine, lament, and eventually create their own surrealist utopia. Together, the Larson’s have a combined experience of 90 years making art. Dean and Laura Larson’s collaborative imagery uses the parlance of storytelling, through digital images and sculptures. In 2015, drawing from Dean’s love of architecture and landscape and Laura’s fascination with medieval sculpture, they began combining their photographic images from various locations, especially Europe. Dean and Laura live in Los Angeles and have both shown their work extensively over the course of their marriage, individually and collaboratively , as well as nationally and internationally.